I have a friend who adopted her son after several years of fostering him. She said that when the official court date drew closer, she...

Every six months or so, depending on what’s going on in my life, I have a Knock-Down. If you’re not familiar with the concept, it’s kind...

I broke the bracelet my husband gave me for Christmas. It survived about 35 days before the slender gold chain got hung on the corner of...

One of the best inventions of the last thirty years has got to be text messaging. Ever since somebody texted “Merry Christmas” to...

Have you ever watched a cartoonist draw the character for which he’s famous? Take Charles Schulz, for instance. If you watch a video of...

As we were driving down a backroad highway a few weeks ago, I saw a man standing in a parking lot, waving and smiling at people who drove...

I was talking to a Sunday school teacher about classroom behavior and how to manage the rowdier kids during the hour he has them every...

I pass the same Burger King restaurant several times a week, though I’ve never actually eaten there. On my frequent passings, I’ve...

Before our schedules became too busy for family trips in the summertime, we used to take an annual trip to a high-rise condo at the...

After a couple of months of harvesting grain along with the servants of Boaz, Naomi gets to thinking about her dear daughter-in-law Ruth....

We got a taxi to the hospital and after what felt like forever—if you’ve spent time in the waiting room with a sick loved one you know...

I’ve published a few books over the last eight or nine years, and something I’ve noticed when a person has read one of my books is her...

“They don’t know that it isn’t real.” This was the reply from Rodrigo, the man who took our family snorkeling on his little boat, the...

When our girls were little, one of their favorite games to play was hide-and-seek. They would tell me or my husband Brent to hide our...

It’s funny to track the differences between my childhood in the 1970’s and 1980’s with the world that my kids live in now. The ways we...

I was in Atlanta last weekend with my older son to watch him play a couple of soccer games. Not being a sporty person myself, I have had...

A friend recently told me about taking a group of Texas teens to Nashville for a mission trip. As they sat outside at an evening...

I rarely watch a movie or read a book more than once. There’s a part of me that says, “I already know how this ends, so I’m not really...

When my twin daughters were 3-years old, I walked in the dining room (though we called it the “yellow room” because, obviously, it was...